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probe Go to Radio Shack and get a pair of battery clips big enough to clamp on the grill rods. Maybe take a grill with you. They are cheap! The battery clip will have a pair of tangs that are meant to be crimped to a wire. Just bend them down to where they will loosely grip your pit probe. That's one solution. You can also just lay the pit probe on the grill when doing an indirect cook, I do it all the time. If you are doing a direct fire cook, you don't want the probe or the wire exposed to direct fire. But, you also don't need a pit probe in this scenario. When doing a direct fire cook, you just want a good hot fire, the exact temp of the fire is not critical. What is important is the finish temp of the food; you SHOULD measure that with your food probe. I never use a pit probe on a hot fire cook, just eyeball a good hot fire and measure the meat. Here's another observation. When doing a low and slow cook, (which we have shown is unnecessary), the actual fire temp is not that important. Anything between 200 to 290 is fine for any low and slow. So your dome thermometer is fine for that. Even if the dome temp isn't exactly the same as the grill temp, it doesn't matter. It will be close enough. This is if you are not using a Guru or a Stoker. Of course for one of those units you will use the pit probe since you paid for it and it's real purpose isn't so much to keep the fire at the "right" cooking temp. The real purpose of the Guru or Stoker is to allow you be assured the fire will stay lit and under control while you do something else. Like golf. Or sleep. There's the real reason for a low and slow! So you can do something else. I sort of rambled there. The point is you don't have to clip your probe to the grill.

copper pan sizes If you want a really nice copper paella pan, here is some good info! Dear Michael, Thank you for your message and for visiting LaTienda.com! The measurements for the Copper Paella Pans are as follows: PP-33 9.5" measures 13.25" PP-34 11" measures 15" PP-35 13.5" measures 17.5" PP-37 12.6" measures 16" PP-38 15.75" measures 20" All of the above measurements are from handle to handle. Should you need further assistance please feel free to contact us. Lesa A Robinson Customer Service Manager [email protected] LaTienda.com 3601 La Grange Parkway Toano, Virginia 23168 Tel (757) 566-9606, Fax (757) 566-9603 Toll Free: 888 331-4362 Here is the webpage for the copper pans: http://www.tienda.com/paella/paella_pans.html

sweet Looks pretty heavenly, actually!

versatile Of course you would cook everything, but I just wondered if you were heavy into that Santa Maria Q sub cult. Saw a whole show on Food Network once about the Santa Maria thing. http://lospadrescounty.net/et/smbbq.html

Santa Maria BBQ So, Slu, are you a tri-tip and pinquito bean bbq'er? Where exactly you located?

sourcing There are quite a few websites for paella equipment and supplies, here is just one: http://www.paellapans.com/default.htm They also have some good tips, recipes, ingredients and so on. Best price I can find on saffron is at Amazon, ~$7.00/ gram.

finished product Well, you can buy a nice stainless paella pan for about $100.00, or a cheap carbon steel one for less than $20.00, or use your nice stainless KK heat deflector! Works perfect. I used Arborio rice, which is not the exact recommended rice, but it came out fine. Not sticky nor creamy, just a nice al dente. This was a test cook, and I would say totally successful! The Naked Whiz article referenced above was my guide. I guess the key was that the ratio of liquid to rice was correct, per the Whiz. My wife thought there was a little too much smoke flavor, I did put one small chunk of mesquite in there. Next time I would just go with straight lump. That should give just a hint of outdoorsy flavor to it. Haven't tried paella on your KK? Do it!!!

You can do it! Paella cooking in a KK stainless heat deflector pan on an indirect fire at 350º Hey, I found the º symbol for degrees!!! It is alt and 0 (zero) Taste report follows...

cooler We'll see if this pan warps when used for paella. It will be farther from the heat than when used as a drip pan/ heat deflector; and will contain a fair bit of liquid as well. Those two things will cause it to run cooler than a straight heat deflector. Maybe it won't warp.

Hmm... I was just looking at the stainless paella pans on paellapans.com, and then remembered I have a stainless heat deflector pan in its' virgin state, that came with my KK! It looks to be basically the same shape and depth as a paella pan. And, it's paid for! Anybody ever make paella in their stainless heat deflector? Well, I will, and report on the results.

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Scrumptious Rather than pork, I did four nice beef tenderloins for Christmas Eve. They marinated for several hours in soy, worcestershire and garlic. Then the fire was 350 degrees, indirect, with one chunk of mesquite, no sear. I finished them at 150 and foiled for 15 minutes. This is our usual Christmas Eve group of family and we usually do tenderloin. They raved that it was the best ever! My wife said we should KK them every year and never do one in the oven again. Perfect medium is how they came out, a little pinkish, not bloody, and just enough smoke flavor; not oversmoked at all. Melt in your mouth tender, too. Absolutely the best tenderloin I have ever eaten. Photo upload stalled out, I'll try again later.

Well, we had the topic Thanksgiving 2009, so let's do Christmas. What y'all doing? I'll do a venison sausage fatty for the appetizer tray, and a pecan smoked pork tenderloin for dinner.

Do It Your technique should work perfectly. Lucky recipients!

Condolences It's a terrible loss Syz, I'm sorry you have to go through it. I'm pretty sure you have a fair number of folks here who empathize, and wish you well.

Top Notch Allen Brothers sell premium product at a premium price. I rarely buy any for myself, maybe once a year. But I recommend everyone try it, just to see and experience the quality. It does make an excellent gift, and can't be beat for that purpose. You will bring a smile to anyone's face with it! Mother's Day and Father's Day in particular give you a chance to be a real star.

pork butt tips You will find you can cook a pork butt at any temperature between 225 to 350. It is super forgiving. As has been said, it is done when it reaches the correct internal temperature; I have had good results with a finish temp anywhere between 180 to 200 plus. Most often I pull them off at 185. So, you need a proper thermometer. There are many thermometer posts and threads here, find 'em!

Sonos There was a Bose Wave Radio in the kitchen, which I had connected to a ZonePlayer 90. My wife did not like the clutter of the two boxes and all the wires on the counter top, so I repaced all of that with a ZonePlayer S5. Simple, sleek, clean, and excellent sound! Yes, either a ZonePlayer or a ZoneBridge can be connected to the router to get internet content. However, it is not necessary to connect to the router if you don't want internet content. You can connect a ZoneBridge directly to an ethernet port on your computer if you only want to distribute music that is stored on your computer. You would not have access to internet music content this way, but this is actually how I initially set my system up. You might think that you could access internet content on your computer, and then send it out to the Sonos network via this ZoneBridge that is connected to the ethernet port, but that does not work. To get internet content you must connect one Sonos device directly to the router. If you want music at the router's location, you connect a ZonePlayer, if you don't need music at that location, you connect a Zone Bridge, which is only $99. And you can only use an iPod or iPhone as a controller IF you have a Zonebridge or a Zoneplayer connected to the router. So ultimately I did connect a Zonebridge to the router. Here is the reason why you might want to connect a ZoneBridge directly to the ethernet port on your computer: if you are connected to your router wirelessly. In this scenario, you are using your computer's wi-fi to send signal to the router, which is connected to a Zone device, and that Zone device then sends Sonos all over the house. There is your weak link in the transmission chain, the wifi signal from your computer to your router. By connecting a Zone Bridge to your computer, you now have Sonos sending signal to the router, and it's Zone device. The Sonos network is much more robust and interference free than the wifi. If you pay all this cash for Sonos, you want absolute dropout free music. So you want your wifi out of the equation. Now if your computer is hard wired by ethernet cable to your router, none of this matters! This is the typical install that Sonos expects, your computer hard wired to your router. And if you have this set-up, your Sonos install will be a snap. But if your computer connects wirelessly to your router, you might want to use my method of connecting a ZoneBridge directly to your ethernet port. If all this sounds complicated, it's really not! Just buy Sonos and if you have trouble with the install, Sonos support will walk you through it in a heartbeat.

beautiful BTW, if you want some beautiful Christmas music, go to Pandora, select Genres, and select "Classical Christmas". It's all beautiful chorales and choirs, super. And it's flowing all over my house right now! Sonos is the bomb.

Easy reverse sear Put the sear grill down on the fire basket, get a good hot fire going. Put the steak up on the middle or top grill and cook til done by internal temp. Put it down on the sear grill for a minute or so on each side. No need to adjust the fire, just the altitude of the meat above the fire! Fast and easy. No need to measure an exact grill temp, just get a good hot fire going, and measure the internal temp of the meat. Easy.

Sonos Installed I set up Sonos and have it distributed to 5 zones, it's damn cool! And zero audio dropouts compared to using the Apple WiFi with Airport Express units. You can tap in to your Pandora account, or your iTunes library, or about eight jillion radio stations, your podcasts, an iPod or a CD player, or a stereo tuner, or...just about anything. Then send it all over the house wirelessly and reliably. You are not limited to the internet radio stations that are preloaded, all you need to do to listen to ANY station is add the URL to the radio list. Figure on it costing about $350 to $500 per zone, it ain't cheap. But oh so sweet! All you could want to know is on the Sonos website, but I will explain a thing or two. Each zone or room has audio signal distributed to it by a Zone Player. There are three kinds. One has no power amp, the Zone Player 90, and it feeds signal to any powered speaker, boombox or audio system you already have in that zone. The other player has a power amp, the Zone Player 120; you simply connect it to a pair of speakers. And the third player, the Zone Player S5, is a powered speaker system itself. To get access to internet content, Pandora, internet radio stations, Napster , Rhapsody, Last FM, and Sirius you connect a Zone Bridge to your router. You control the entire system in several different ways. There is a free desktop controller for your computer, Mac or PC; or you can download a free controller app to your iPod Touch or iPhone, or you can buy a Sonos handheld controller for $350.! Needless to say, I'm using the free Mac desktop controller as well as iPod Touch and iPhone controllers. Anyone in the house can control any zone independently with any handy controller. All zones can play the same content, or each zone can play it's own unique music. You can link any number of zones together. It is really quite spectacular, and you can keep adding zones from time to time as you see fit, to a max of 32 zones. All in all it's far superior to shooting audio around the house with wi-fi and the Airport Express. Highly, totally, unquestionably recommended! My install was atypical, so I needed a fair bit of support, which was prompt and thorough. You can phone, email, or live chat with the support folks; and I did all three. If you do a standard install, you will probably have the whole thing up and running in a few minutes. See the Sonos website for more info. http://www.sonos.com/

Apple/ Sonos With the Apple system, you can only listen to one source at a time, over the entire network. So Sonos is superior in that you can listen to any source in any room. With Apple, up until recently, you could only control the music at the computer itself, but at least now there is an iPhone app that lets you use the iPhone as a remote. Still, the audio dropouts are so frustrating, I may pop for the Sonos. It gets nothing but stellar reviews.

dropouts I am sorely tempted to try Sonos. The cost is pretty steep, however. With iTunes, a computer with a wireless card and some $89. Airport Express units, you can transmit music all over the house to any powered speakers, for a fraction of the price. Imperfectly, I might add. The worst problem with Air Tunes is audio dropouts, this has occurred with both my old and new iMacs and several different Airport Extreme base stations. So it's probably not a bad wireless card, or router. It's quite maddening. Fetz, I take it you do not have intermittent audio dropouts with Sonos? Sonos is also quite a bit more flexible and powerful than a computer and some Airport Express units. Might be worth the price of admission.

Fetz, I humbly suggest you take as much time as necessary to research and understand how DNA and RNA work. Once you fully understand this, on a biochemical level, you will realize that there is NO possibility that this code could have occurred by chance. From that point on, reason and natural law will lead you to the inescapable conclusion. I have never seen that website before. I used that link, btw, simply because it gave a quick and concise explanation of the fraudulent "science" surrounding the Piltdown scandal. It is the prototypical example of faking science for whatever purpose. Interestingly, however, and ironically, both the Piltdown and global warming frauds share a common thread. Both hoaxes serve(d) the purpose of denying God and promoting secular humanism. The sad and bitter reality in both cases is that lies and falsehoods were/are held out as science, which, properly conducted, is an objective pursuit of pure truth! Scientists being imperfect humans, this, I suppose, is not unexpected.

Success Well, the apple brined turkey was a smash hit! I cooked it in a roasting pan with a shelf in it and caught all the juices and drippings for gravy. The gravy had a real shot of pecan smoke flavor, which several people really liked. Others preferred some "normal" gravy we also made. The finish temp was 168 in the thigh, and that was thoroughly cooked without being at all overcooked. So thanks to the Weber forum for the recipe. Breast was quite moist, not the least bit dry, thanks to the 42 hour brining I suppose. I also did a bonus breast, injected with Creole Butter marinade, which was also super. Cooking time was pretty quick, about 3 plus hours at 350 degrees. I held these birds wrapped in foil, toweled and coolered for about 4 hours, and they were still quite hot, I'm sure above the safe limit. I'm fairly cavalier about holding beef and pork after cooking, but not poultry. One great thing about the KK and the CyberQ is the ability to achieve and hold a definite temperature much more reliably than an electric oven. I'm sure lots of folks have had Thanksgiving troubles getting the bird done properly and on time in an oven. We sure have in the past; not with KK! I'll probably do turkey more often, after this good success. So for those of you who did KK turkeys, how did you all come out?